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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
Pearl S. Buck
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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
Autobiographer
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Missionary
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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Starvation
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Totally
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Modern
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Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.
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an artist is always seeking revelation.
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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
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The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
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But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?
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If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
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Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
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To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.
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A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.
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Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.
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He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
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